Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds (Paperback)

List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: Immersion in Punchdrunk's Theatre Scaling up: Space, Time, Audiences Audiences on- and Offline Gravity, Consequence and Emergence 2. Ritual and Rhetoric in Narrative Systems System Narratives and the Shape of Interaction Perspectives on Agency in Interactive Systems The Postdigital Sublime: Beyond the Digital Mythos 3. A Genealogy of the Immersive Aesthetic Key Influences on the Immersive Aesthetic Antirealist Modernism Complicity and Participation Blended Spaces and the Vertigo of Transformation 4. Punchdrunk's Interactive Systems The 'Punchdrunk System' Emergence and Order Art-work and Algorithmic Audiences 5. Behind the Interface: Making Punchdrunk's Storyworlds Crafting Storyworlds Devising and Performing 6. Audience Experience and Participation Analysing Punchdrunk Audiences The Effects of Anonymity Active Immersion Delinquent System Aesthetics 7. Impure Futures Condemned to Change The Sublime vs. Efficiency Harnessing the un-Modern Notes Bibliography Index